Of Aregeus.
Aregeus, when some praised not their own but other
men's wives, said: Faith, about virtuous women there
should be no common talk; and what beauty they have
none but their own husbands should understand. As he
was walking through Selinus, a city of Sicily, he saw this
epitaph upon a tomb,—
Those that extinguished the tyrannic flame,
Surprised by war and hasty fate,
Though they are still alive in lasting fame,
Lie buried near Selinus' gate;—
and said: You died deservedly for quenching it wnen
already in a flame; for you should have hindered it from
coming to a blaze.
